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The Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History in the David M. Rubenstein Library acquires and preserves printed material and collections of textual and multimedia resources and makes them available to researchers around the world. Through these collections and related programming, the Center promotes understanding of the social, cultural, and historical impact of advertising, marketing, and sales.

To celebrate 150 years of JWT accomplishment and contribution to the advertising industry the Hartman Center has created an interactive, online timeline tracing events in the company's history: long-standing client relationships, key personnel, office openings, innovations, and more. The timeline is broken up into two parts. Part one traces the company's history from it's founding in 1864 through 1930. Picking up where the first leaves off, part two brings users up to the 2000s.

Newly Available Collections

The Hartman Center announces new online finding aids for the following collections: